Great Poems of the World War

I enlisted in the infantry last summer; I was greeted at the training camp with joy; I had hardly gotten settled, when a sergeant Told me I was now the Company’s errand boy. Now...

But there ain’t no stores to buy in; there ain’t no big hotels, When you spend your time in dugouts doing a wholesale trade in shells; It’s nice to know the proper talk for thea...

Life that we might have lived, love that we might have loved, Sorrow of all sorrows, we have drunk thy bitter lees. Speak thou a word to us, here in our narrow beds-- Word of th...

“I’d sent four of ’em back with the R. I. P. sign, Which means to return if you can, But none of ’em got through the curtain of fire; My hurry call died with the man. Then Runne...

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air. I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring...

Five rivers of France, see their names are writ On a banner of crimson and gold, And the glory of those who fashioned it Shall nevermore cease to be told.

O thrill and laughter of the busy town! O flower valleys, trees against the skies, Wild moor and woodland, glade and sweeping down, O land of our desire! like men asleep We have...

Above the broken walls the apple boughs Are murmurous with bees; Again the slumbrous breeze Eddies the snow of drifted chestnut flowers, And little ruffling winds go silverly Al...

Twenty years of the army, of drawing a sergeant’s pay And helping the West Point shavetails, fresh from the training school, To handle a bunch of soldiers and drill ’em the prop...

Nameless--and yet how gallantly he faced the roaring thunder Where names were less than star-dust as the crashing steel swept by To take its endless toll of those the night squa...

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